http://www.myhelsinki.fi/Journal of Peter Corbett on April 2 - My Helsinki2009-04-08T12:45:38ZSivuviidakkoJournal of Peter Corbett on March 29

My journey to Helsinki has not officially begun, but I've been talking about it with a number of people over the past few weeks. One of the things I plan to do is to shoot a short documentary - and I'm still refining the concept for it. Once I have a definitive directly I'll post more about that here.

2009-03-29T19:09:07Zhttp://www.myhelsinki.fi/Peter CorbettJournal of Peter Corbett on March 29

2009-03-31T06:45:33Zhttp://www.myhelsinki.fi/Peter CorbettJournal of Peter Corbett on March 31

Last minute schedule: Having a great client call at 10:30 to talk about a digital + experiential marketing campaign on college campuses, photo shoot for Washingtonian Magazine at 11, interview on Fed News Radio at 1pm, head to the airport at 2pm, fly to Helsinki at 5pm!

2009-03-31T16:09:16Zhttp://www.myhelsinki.fi/Peter CorbettJournal of Peter Corbett on April 2

Yesterday was a tough one as I landed with about an hour of sleep and jumped right into agenda planning and a couple meetings.

I'm glad I didn't opt to just run to my hotel room to sleep because my meetings with www.zipipop.com and www.tripsay.com were terrific!

Today is going to be a full day and you can follow most of what I'm doing via http://www.twitter.com/corbett3000 in real time :)

2009-04-02T09:10:51Zhttp://www.myhelsinki.fi/Peter CorbettJournal of Peter Corbett on April 4

I'm at the http://www.mediapaivat.fi/english/ conference and I'll be speaking about Apps for Democracy and Citizen Driven Innovation at 2pm.

2009-04-04T11:47:58Zhttp://www.myhelsinki.fi/Peter CorbettJournal of Peter Corbett on April 2

I landed yesterday and there was an article about my work in Helsingin Sanomat: http://tinyurl.com/c8qql4

2009-04-04T12:24:16Zhttp://www.myhelsinki.fi/Peter CorbettJournal of Peter Corbett on April 3

Forum Virium has been such a incredible host and have setup some really interesting meeting for me thus far. I've visited the following companies:

http://www.tripsay.com/index.html (Great insight into the local tech community in Helsinki. Looks like Helsinki has good sources for early strange funding, but the tech community isn't as tightly coalesced as DC. DC on the other hand has very few sources for early stage investments).

http://www.demos.fi/english (These guys are a think tank + culture hacking group that I think feels and thinks a lot like iStrategyLabs).

www.kuubi.fi (also really felt like iStrategyLabs but with a deeper focus on content creation - they do all the film trailers in Finland for big Hollywood films, where as iStrategyLabs is more heavily weighted on the social media marketing side...though Kuubi is quiet adept at that as well). They made a really cool touch screen interface to pop bubbles with!

Went to http://2009.pixelache.ac/ today which was interesting - I stood up and told a very left leaning socialist that capitalism is the best system but that it needs to be tweaks A LOT to work better for people.

http://www.sulake.com/ was certainly a very enlightening company to visit. They've really tapped the pulse of the youth market in a big way with http://www.habbo.com/

Off to meet the Mayor now!

2009-04-04T12:25:24Zhttp://www.myhelsinki.fi/Peter CorbettJournal of Peter Corbett on April 6

Yesterday I spoke at a conference on "Citizen Driven Innovation" and my slides are here: